Gene Fuller wrote:
Cecil Moore wrote:
Incidentally, this is a different convention from the field
of optics.

That is a rather curious comment. Why do you say the convention is
different for optics? There are no commonly used "voltage" or "current"
descriptions in optics, so analysis is done using E-fields and H-fields.
Otherwise there is no difference in convention between optical and RF.

In optics, to the best of my knowledge, there is no separate
reflection coefficient for the E-field and the H-field. If
true, that fact alone implies a different convention from
the field of RF.
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73, Cecil http://www.w5dxp.com